Canard \Ca*nard"\, n. [F., properly, a duck.]
An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated
sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the
newspapers to hoax the public.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
canard
n : a deliberately misleading fabrication
WordNet (r) 2.0
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "canard":
Cornish hen, artifice, bouncer, broiler, bruit, buzz, caille,
caneton, capon, chapon, chicken, common talk, concoction, cry,
dindon, dodge, duck, duckling, extravaganza, fable, fabrication,
faisan, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, figment, flying rumor,
forgery, fowl, fryer, goose, grapevine, grouse, guinea hen,
hearsay, hoax, humbug, idea afloat, invention, latrine rumor, lie,
misrepresentation, myth, news stirring, oie, on-dit, partridge,
pheasant, pigeon, pigeonneau, poulet, prevarication, quail, report,
roaster, romance, roorback, rumble, rumor, scuttlebutt, sell,
spoof, squab, stewing chicken, tale, talk, town talk, trick,
turkey, unconfirmed report, untruth, volaille, whisper,
wild duck
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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